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A recent scan of the markets revealed twenty-six companies that met the following screening criteria:

Dividend Yield over 2%

Payout Ratio under 50%

PEG Ratio of under 3

Return on Equity of at least 15%

Debt to Equity Ratio of less than 50%

Positive EPS Growth this year, next year and the next 5 years.

(data from 20 August 2014)

I have sorted these companies in the order of their market capitalization and have listed them from largest to smallest. I have also segmented this list into three parts in order to keep each individual article within a reasonable length. The three parts will include the following companies.

10. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (TROW) is a publicly owned asset management holding company. The firm primarily provides its services to individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. Through its subsidiaries, it manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also launches equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, markets across the globe. It also invests in late-stage venture capital transactions with equity investments between $3 million and $5 million. The firm was previously known as T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. T. Rowe Price Group was founded in 1937 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

11. The Gap, Inc. (GPS) operates as an apparel retail company worldwide. It provides apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children under the Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime, Athleta, and Intermix brands. Its products comprise maternity apparel; loungewear, sleepwear, intimates, and active apparel for women; handbags, shoes, jewelry, personal care products, and eyewear for men and women; women’s apparel, footwear, and accessories for sports and fitness activities, including crossover apparel and casualwear; and luxury and contemporary products. The company also has franchise agreements with unaffiliated franchisees to operate stores in Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa under the Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy brands. Gap, Inc. offers its products through company-operated stores, franchise stores, e-commerce sites, and catalogs. As of May 3, 2014, it had 3,565 store locations in 48 countries, including 3,179 company-operated stores and 386 franchise stores. The Gap, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

12. Symantec Corporation (SYMC), together with its subsidiaries, provides security, backup, and availability solutions worldwide. Its products and services protect people and information in any environment from mobile devices and enterprise data centers to cloud-based systems. The company operates in three segments: User Productivity & Protection; Information Security; and Information Management. The User Productivity & Protection segment provides Norton solutions, endpoint security and management, encryption, and mobile offerings. The Information Security segment offers secure socket layer certificates, authentication, mail and Web security, data center security, data loss prevention, and information security services offerings that help its customers ensure their confidential information is secure wherever it resides in the network path, from the user’s device to the data’s resting place. The Information Management segment focuses on backup and recovery, archiving and eDiscovery, storage, and high availability solutions helping to ensure that its customers’ IT infrastructure and mission-critical applications are protected, managed, and available. The company markets and sells its products and related services through its direct sales force and e-commerce platform, as well as through distributors, direct marketers, Internet-based resellers, system builders, Internet service providers, wireless carriers, retailers, original equipment manufacturers, national solution providers, regional solution providers, national account resellers, global/federal system integrators, managed service providers, and retail and online stores. Symantec Corporation was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

13. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (HP) primarily operates as a contract drilling company in North and South America. It provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. As of November 14, 2013, the company’s fleet included 305 land rigs in the U.S., 29 international land rigs, and 9 offshore platform rigs. Its contract drilling business operates through three reportable segments: U.S. Land, Offshore, and International Land. The U.S. Land segment operates primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Nevada. The Offshore segment conducts operations in the Gulf of Mexico, and offshore of California and Equatorial Guinea. The International Land segment has operates in Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Tunisia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. The company, through its subsidiaries, is also involved in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate; and the research and development of rotary steerable technology. Its real estate investments include a shopping center containing approximately 441,000 leasable square feet, multi-tenant industrial warehouse properties containing approximately one million leasable square feet, and approximately 210 acres of undeveloped real estate located within Tulsa, Oklahoma. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

14. Murphy Oil Corporation (MUR) is engaged in the exploration and production of oil and gas properties. The company explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids. It produces oil and/or natural gas in the United States, Canada, and Malaysia; and conducts exploration activities worldwide. The company was formerly known as Murphy Corporation and changed its name to Murphy Oil Corporation in 1964. Murphy Oil Corporation was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in El Dorado, Arkansas. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

15. Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY) operates as a multi-national, multi-channel retailer of technology products in the United States, Canada, China, and Mexico. Its stores offer consumer electronics consisting primarily of television and home theaters; digital cameras and camcorders; DVD and Blu-ray players; portable electronics, such as MP3 devices, headphones and speakers, car stereo, navigation and satellite radio; and all related accessories. The company's stores also provide computing and mobile phone products, including notebook and desktop computers, tablets and e-readers, mobile phones and related subscription service commissions, and related accessories; entertainment products, such as video gaming hardware and software, DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, digital downloads, and computer software; and appliances, including large and small appliances, and kitchen and bath fixtures, including faucets, sinks, toilets, and bathtubs. It also offers extended warranty service contracts, technical support, product repair, delivery, and installation services, as well as offers snacks and beverages. The company operates e-commerce operations, retail stores, and call centers; and conducts operations under various names, such as Best Buy, including BestBuy.com and BestBuy.ca; Best Buy Mobile; Five Star; Future Shop, including FutureShop.ca; Geek Squad; Magnolia Audio Video; and Pacific Sales. The company was formerly known as Sound of Music, Inc. Best Buy Co., Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

16. Alaska Air Group, Inc. (ALK), through its subsidiaries, provides passengers and cargo air transportation services in the United States. The company operates through Alaska Mainline and Alaska Regional segments. It serves approximately 100 cities in Alaska, the Lower 48, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. As of December 31, 2013, the company’s fleet consisted of 131 Boeing 737 jet aircraft and 51 Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft. The company was founded in 1932 and is based in Seattle, Washington. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

17. GameStop Corp. (GME) operates as a multichannel video game, consumer electronics, and wireless services retailer. The company sells new and pre-owned video game hardware; physical and digital video game software; pre-owned and value video game products; personal computer (PC) entertainment software in various genres, including sports, action, strategy, adventure/role playing, and simulation; digital products, including downloadable content, network points cards, prepaid digital and online timecards, and digitally downloadable software; video game accessories, such as controllers, gaming headsets, memory cards, and other add-ons for use with video game hardware and software; strategy guides, magazines, and gaming-related toys; and mobile and consumer electronics, including new smartphones, tablets, headphones, and accessories, as well as pre-owned smartphones, tablets, and MP3 players. It also operates electronic commerce Websites comprising gamestop.com, ebgames.com.au, ebgames.co.nz, gamestop.ca, gamestop.it, gamestop.es, gamestop.ie, gamestop.de, gamestop.co.uk, and micromania.fr. In addition, the company operates kongregate.com, a browser-based game site; Game Informer magazine, a physical and digital video game publication; a digital PC distribution platform available at gamestop.com/pcgames; iOS and Android mobile applications; and an online consumer electronics marketplace available at buymytronics.com. Further, it operates Simply Mac, a certified Apple products reseller; Spring Mobile, an authorized AT&T reseller operating AT&T branded wireless retail stores in the United States; and pre-paid wireless stores under the name Aio Wireless. As of July 30, 2014, the company operated approximately 6,600 stores in 15 countries. It has strategic partnerships with Shelfbucks. The company, formerly known as GSC Holdings Corp., was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

18. Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. (WDR), through its subsidiaries, provides investment management, investment product underwriting and distribution, and shareholder services administration to mutual funds, and institutional and separately managed accounts in the United States. The company acts as an investment adviser for institutional and other private investors, and provides sub advisory services to other investment companies; underwrites and distributes registered open-end mutual fund portfolios; and offers fee-based asset allocation investment advisory products to advisors channel customers. It also distributes business partners’ variable annuity products, and retirement and life insurance products to advisors channel customers; and sells life insurance and disability products underwritten by various carriers. The company distributes investment products through its wholesale channel comprising other broker/dealers, registered investment advisors, and various retirement platforms, as well as through independent financial advisors; and markets investment advisory services to institutional investors directly or through consultants. Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is based in Overland Park, Kansas. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart)

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